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Benedict XVI, the first pope in seven centuries to resign, has died at the age of 95.

"Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982" is nominated for a Grammy for best historical album.

Some progressive groups are angry with Facebook for running ads supporting GOP lawmakers on board with the immigration overhaul bill. The left-wing groups have turned a blind eye to what Facebook gets out of the overhaul measure, and what it may cost American tech workers.

Predictions of rolling blackouts across Europe this month have not come to pass — so far. It's not only because of the mild winter.

The Justice Department has accused executives at two of the world's biggest online poker companies of bank fraud. The government took over their accounts and disabled their websites. The case is shaking up the deck in the high stakes electronic gambling industry.

Harvard law professor David Barron is under fire for signing memos that allowed the U.S. to kill a U.S. citizen overseas in a drone strike. Those blocking his nomination want the documents released.

For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent in 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation gone wrong.

A widespread pattern of excessive force has been uncovered. The 18-month federal civil rights investigation also found police supervisors failed to document and investigate claims of brutality.

The head of India's main opposition party has been disqualified from parliament after a court convicted him of defaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press about a rare, long-track tornado that left a trail of devastation across western Mississippi on Friday night.